[Jeremy] may have provided up on his huge hexapod project, however that doesn’t indicate he’s out of the world of legged robots just yet. He’s embarked on one more project, much a lot more sophisticated as well as lovely than a basic hexapod. This time, he’s building a Strandbeest, the exact same maker created by […]
If you’re building model rockets you want to make sure they fly straight, and many of that is dependent on the stabilizer fins. It has long been a problem come assembly time. how can you make sure that they’re being aligned without any variation? [Rrix] discussed that one technique is to use a square to […]
A big problem with restoring old arcade or pinball machines is finding original parts to get them running again. That’s part of the fun, though; when something finally works after weeks or months of effort. On the other hand, in some cases the only hope for old parts that will never be in a pinball […]
[Andrey] from RTFM has built himself a glowing LED pendant using only three parts and some easy code. The hack is not particularly complicated but [Andrey] offers some good instructions on Pickaxe programming through an RS232 serial port and RGB LED control to produce the good glowing effects. The pendant includes an RGB LED, a […]
A little light reading implies something different to us than it does to [Hamster]. He’s been making his method with a book called The scientist as well as Engineer’s guide to digital Signal Processing written by [Steven W. Smith, Ph.D]. Being the hacker type, a million different uses for the newfound understanding popped to mind. however as […]
You’d think pool should be an easy game for a robot to play, right? It’s all math — geometry to figure out the angles and basic physics to deal with how much force is needed to move the balls. On top of that, it’s constrained to just two dimensions, so it should be a breeze. Any […]
Sure, it’s most likely a gimmick to [Jon Masters], however we absolutely like the pedal-powered server he developed utilizing a group of ARM chips. [Jon] is an engineer at Red Hat as well as put together the job in buy to show off the prospective of the low-power ARM offerings. The platform is a quad-core […]
The Nintendo PlayStation is not a misnomer. before the PS1, Sony teamed up with Nintendo to create a video game console that utilized CD-ROMs as a distribution platform. These plans fell through, Sony went on to style the PS1, Nintendo the N64, however a few prototype ‘Nintendo PlayStations’ made it out into the wild. one […]
[Luc Volders] is building his own smart house with the help of Google home and an ESP-8266. inspired by the house computers from the TV show, Eureka [Luc] created an IoT ecosystem using a mix of off the shelf devices and open source software. There are about a thousand ways to create a diy smart home these days. […]
Here’s an simple to comply with guide for building your own glove box. It’s a lab tool that contains the job you’re working on to keep things in or out. For instance, we might have utilized this a few years back when we tried to add an acrylic window to a difficult drive. Instead, we […]